Example sentences of "he was [verb] me [adv] " in BNC.

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1 He was going to tell his mother and sister on the Friday and , to break the ice , we decided to go to the Fire Festival on Saturday ; he was to pick me up here at eight and we were going together . ’
2 As I left my GP — he was passing me over to a surgeon — and he shook my hand and wished me luck — that in itself was a bad sign — neither the truth nor the meaning had really sunk in .
3 I was therefore concentrating very hard on what he was telling me when we both became aware of a sudden change in the atmosphere of the main office outside .
4 This was almost the first time the bloke had spoken to me about anything , never mind about 10,000m running , and here he was telling me how to run tactically .
5 However , to illustrate my belief that nothing has really changed , while I was taking a few notes from a caddie in Montpellier in the south of France — he was telling me how ‘ we 'd hit a great pitch in at the last ’ — I happened to notice the sign above the caddie shack .
6 ‘ And , say , he was telling me how in your mother 's day there were coal fires in every bedroom and how … ’
7 In fact , he was telling me only the other week , about the the number of criminals that he knows , they 're serving their they 're serving sentences , and they 're only one thing they 're longing and hoping for , it is get out , so they can knock another old lady down ,
8 Without speaking or smiling , he was holding me tightly round the waist , as if he would never let go .
9 But he was trying me out .
10 But facing me in the nets for two winters , he got to know my bowling inside out and by the end of our stay in Cape Town he was hammering me all around the practice area .
11 once and he was showing me how to do it , I could he hardly hit the
12 We used to build Lego together and make up stores about the fellows who lived in the Lego houses , and if Mike talked about me , people just thought he was making me up .
13 The next thing I knew he was pulling me up by my hair .
14 He was to get me out of there fast , and be sure nobody saw me leave .
15 He was testing me out , leaving that cash lying about .
16 ‘ As he was knocking me all around the ring , ’ said Holyfield , ‘ I thought he 'll miss soon and maybe I 'll get the chance to knock him out . ’
17 He was hitting me really hard .
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